NIH report vindicates Gallo on conduct of AIDS research
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A report from the National Institutes of Health's Office of Scientific Integrity (OSI) has absolved AIDS researcher Robert C. Gallo of improperly taking credit for proving that the HIV virus causes AIDS. OSI's investigation was prompted by a Nov 1989 'Chicago Tribune' newspaper article by John Crewdson alleging that Gallo and colleague Mikulas Popovic obtained the virus surreptitiously from French researchers. However, OSI found no evidence to substantiate Crewdson's charge but did take Gallo to task for management of his laboratory at the National Cancer Institute.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1992
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The report issued by the National Institutes of Health's Office of Scientific Integrity (OSI) may have exonerated Robert C. Gallo of misconduct in wrongly claiming the first discovery of HIV, the AIDS virus, but does so in such hesitant terms that Gallo's lawyers dispute the report. OSI investigated Gallo and colleague Mikulas Popovic to find out if they had isolated the virus from material obtained improperly from French researchers. OSI found that Gallo was not technically guilty of misconduct but had failed to ensure accurate, discrepancy-free results.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1992
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US report finds NIH's Gallo guilty of misstatement
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A Health and Human Services Department review board report has partially reversed a report vindicating researcher Robert C. Gallo. Gallo was charged with scientific misconduct in having appropriated an AIDS virus from the lab of Luc Montagnier of the Pasteur Institute. It has been revealed that both Montagnier and Gallo had been working with a virus that had contaminated the French sample sent to Gallo. The newest report says that Gallo lied in 1984 when he said that the virus from Montagnier's lab had not been transmitted to a permanent cell line.
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Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1993
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